Claudine Monteil

Claudine Monteil (born 1949) is a French writer, women's rights specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat.

Biography
Monteil's mother, Josiane Serre, was a chemist who became the director of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles. Her father is Fields Medal and Abel Prize winning mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre. Monteil holds a Ph.D. on the study of Simone de Beauvoir's writings and life.

Monteil is one of the founders of the French women's rights movement in 1970 and one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 343. She authored several works on Simone de Beauvoir. While working on women's rights, she was a long close friend of Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Beauvoir's sister, the painter Hélène de Beauvoir. Her writings on the Beauvoirs, Sartre, and French feminism have been translated into multiple languages.

Claudine Monteil has been a retired French diplomat since the end of 2014. She has been working at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on different issues, including the relations between France and institutions of the United Nations as, among others, UNICEF, UNFPA, and UNESCO. In 2016, she published the first biography on Ève Curie, youngest daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, who was a hero of World War II.